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A+LSCURRICULUM
GUIDE
The English Language - Language Skills I |
The A+dvanced Learning System® Language curriculum is a comprehensive, completely integrated language skills curriculum for grade levels 1-9. This program directs students from beginning language skills to more advanced in a title series that encompasses three Grammar & Usage titles and seven Language Skills titles. Language Skills titles have extensive tutorial and instructional voice support.
The seven Language Skills titles teach word usage, spelling, usage in context, pronunciation, and alphabetizing for over 4,000 of the most commonly-used words in the English language. These titles make use of complete voice instruction for four basic learning techniques, the Eight-Step Method, Proofreading, Flash Cards, and Alphabetizing, to illustrate and drive home, and assess mastery of, these skills. In addition, the Language Skills titles all contain Essay modules that require students to demonstrate their language skills in curriculum- and community-related writing exercises. Language Skills titles each contain between 68 and 72 lessons. Each lesson works with a word list that exemplifies a generalization, or learning objective for the student to master.
| LESSON # | LESSON TITLE | GENERALIZATION TAUGHT | WORD LIST | ESSAY |
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Short /a/ Sound 1 | The short vowel sound /a/ is usually spelled ‘a’ as in man. | am, can, and, as, at |
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Short /a/ Sound 2 | The short vowel sound /a/ is usually spelled ‘a’ as in man. | cat, had, *have, man, ran | |
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Short /e/ Sound 1 | The short vowel sound /e/ is usually spelled ‘e’ as in bed. | bed, get, let, men, red |
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Short /e/ Sound 2 | The short vowel sound /e/ is usually spelled ‘e’ as in bed. | *said, *says, set, ten, yes | |
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Short /i/ Sound 1 | The short vowel sound /i/ is usually spelled ‘i’ as in big. | *been, big, *give, hit, if |
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Short /i/ Sound 2 | The short vowel sound /i/ is usually spelled ‘i’ as in big. | in, is, it, pig, sit | |
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Short /o/ Sound 1 | The short vowel sound /o/ is usually spelled ‘o’ as in box. | box, got, hop, hot, job |
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Short /o/ Sound 2 | The short vowel sound /o/ is usually spelled ‘o’ as in box. | lot, not, on, top, *want | |
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Short /u/ Sound 1 | The short vowel sound /u/ is usually spelled ‘u’ as in fun. | but, cut, fun, *of, run |
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Short /u/ Sound 2 | The short vowel sound /u/ is usually spelled ‘u’ as in fun. | cup, sun, up, us, *was | |
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Short Vowels 1 | A short vowel sound is usually spelled with one vowel letter as in has. | an, did, has, him, his | |
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Short Vowels 2 | A short vowel sound is usually spelled with one vowel letter as in has. | six, *live, hen, pet, end | |
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Final /l/ Sound 1 | The consonant sound /l/ at the end of a word is often spelled ‘ll’ as in well. | bill, bell, fell, doll, sell | |
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Final /l/ Sound 2 | The consonant sound /l/ at the end of a word is often spelled ‘ll’ as in well. | tell, hill, *until, well, will | |
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Short Vowels 3 | A short vowel sound is usually spelled with one vowel letter followed by one or more consonant letters as in milk. | just, help, fast, milk, must |
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Short Vowels 4 | A short vowel sound is usually spelled with one vowel letter followed by one or more consonant letters as in milk. | last, best, next, went, jump | |
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Short /u/ 3 | The short vowel sound /u/ is sometimes spelled ‘o’ as income. | mother, *does, other, *once, come | |
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Short /u/ 4 | The short vowel sound /u/ is sometimes spelled ‘o’ as income. | done, money, some, love, *color | |
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Long Vowels 1 | A long vowel sound is often spelled with one vowel letter followed by a consonant and silent ‘e’ as in cake. | came, make, made, same, name |
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Long Vowels 2 | A long vowel sound is often spelled with one vowel letter followed by a consonant and silent ‘e’ as in cake. | face, gave, take, game, cake | |
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Long Vowels 3 | A long vowel sound is often spelled with one vowel letter followed by a consonant and silent ‘e’ as in cake. | fine, nice, ride, like, five |
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Long Vowels 4 | A long vowel sound is often spelled with one vowel letter followed by a consonant and silent ‘e’ as in cake. | rope, hope, time, home, kite | |
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Long Vowels With ‘y’ 1 | A long vowel sound at the end of a short word is often spelled with one vowel letter or ‘y’ as in be and my. | be, by, go, my, *see | |
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Long Vowels With ‘y’ 2 | A long vowel sound at the end of a short word is often spelled with one vowel letter or ‘y’ as in be and my. | he, she, we, so me | |
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Vowel Clusters 1 | A long vowel sound is often spelled with two vowel letters together as in keep. | week, coat, feet, keep, read |
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Vowel Clusters 2 | A long vowel sound is often spelled with two vowel letters together as in keep. | boat, soap, eat, feed, coal | |
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Long /a/ Sound 1 | The long vowel sound /a/ is sometimes spelled ‘ay’ as in day. | always, away, day, may, *they |
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Long /a/ Sound 2 | The long vowel sound /a/ is sometimes spelled ‘ay’ as in day. | say, today, play, stay, way | |
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Long /e/ Sound 1 | The long vowel sound /e/ at the end of a word is often spelled ‘y’ as in baby. | many, only, any, funny, happy, pony |
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Long /e/ Sound 2 | The long vowel sound /e/ at the end of a word is often spelled ‘y’ as in baby. | pretty, candy, every, very, baby, story | |
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Homophones 1 | Homophones are words which sound alike, but have different spellings and meanings such as one and won. | won, deer, know, no, dear, one |
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Homophones 2 | Homophones are words which sound alike, but have different spellings and meanings such as one and won. | two, hear, to, too, here | |
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Double Consonants 1 | A consonant sound that follows a short vowel sound is sometimes spelled with double consonant letters as in apple. | apple, little, rabbit, yellow, better, butter |
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Double Consonants 2 | A consonant sound that follows a short vowel sound is sometimes spelled with double consonant letters as in apple. | daddy, dinner, supper, kitten, letter, summer | |
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Consonant Blends 1 | A consonant blend is spelled with two or more consonant letters such as ‘fl’ in flag. | close, flag, fly, black, clean, place | |
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Consonant Blends 2 | A consonant blend is spelled with two or more consonant letters such as ‘fl’ in flag. | glad, please, sled, sleep, still, stop |
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Consonant Blends 3 | A consonant blend is spelled with two or more consonant letters such as ‘fl’ in flag. | grass, green, bring, brother, from, grade |
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Consonant Blends 4 | A consonant blend is spelled with two or more consonant letters such as ‘fl’ in flag. | dress, drink, train, tree, friend, great | |
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Consonant Blends 5 | Some consonant sounds such as /ch/, /sh/, and /w/, may be spelled with two letters as in chair, sheep, and when. | white, *sure, what, when, where, show | |
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Consonant Blends 6 | Some consonant sounds such as /ch/, /sh/, and /w/, may be spelled with two letters as in chair, sheep, and when. | chair, while, church, sheep, children, why |
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The /th/ Sound 1 | The sounded /th/ is spelled ‘th’ as in than. The sound /th/ is spelled ‘th’ as in think. | their, this, the, that, then, there | |
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The /th/ Sound 2 | The sounded /th/ is spelled ‘th’ as in than. The sound /th/ is spelled ‘th’ as in think. | them, these, thing, think, than, thank | |
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Final Blends 1 | A consonant sound at the end of a word is sometimes spelled with two letters, such as ‘ng’ in ring and ‘sh’ in fish. | much, with, each, back, which, fish | |
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Final Blends 2 | A consonant sound at the end of a word is sometimes spelled with two letters, such as ‘ng’ in ring and ‘sh’ in fish. | long, ring, sing, teach, wish, sick | |
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The /ou/ Sound 1 | The vowel sound /ou/ may be spelled ‘ou’ as in found or ‘ow’ as in cow. | town, house, about, our, how, down | |
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The /ou/ Sound 2 | The vowel sound /ou/ may be spelled ‘ou’ as in found or ‘ow’ as in cow. | out, now, brown, around, cow, found |
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The /ôô/ Sound 1 | The vowel sound /ôô/ may be spelled ‘oo’ as in book, ‘u’ as in full, or ‘ou’ as in would. | book, could, would, took, look, foot | |
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The /ôô/ Sound 2 | The vowel sound /ôô/ may be spelled ‘oo’ as in book, ‘u’ as in full, or ‘ou’ as in would. | put, full, wood, pull, should, good | |
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The /ôô/ Sound 3 | The vowel sound /ôô/ may be spelled ‘oo’ as in soon, ‘ew’ as in new, ‘o’ as in do, ‘ou’ as in you, or ‘ue’ as in blue. | you, blue, new, food, grew, school | |
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The /ôô/ Sound 4 | The vowel sound /ôô/ may be spelled ‘oo’ as in soon, ‘ew’ as in new, ‘o’ as in do, ‘ou’ as in you, or ‘ue’ as in blue. | soon, noon, room, knew, do, who | |
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The /or/ Sound 1 | The sound /ôr/ may be spelled ‘or’ as in corn, ‘ore’ as in more, ‘oor’ as in door, or ‘our’ as in your. | store, morning, or, corn, four, more |
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The /or/ Sound 2 | The sound /ôr/ may be spelled ‘or’ as in corn, ‘ore’ as in more, ‘oor’ as in door, or ‘our’ as in your. | for, your, yours, horse, before, door | |
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The /ûr/ Sound 1 | The sound /ûr/ may be spelled ‘er’ as in her, ‘ur’ as in fur, ‘ir’ as in bird, ‘or’ as in work, or ‘ear’ as in heard. | *were, birthday, bird, girl, fur, heard | |
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The /ûr/ Sound 2 | The sound /ûr/ may be spelled ‘er’ as in her, ‘ur’ as in fur, ‘ir’ as in bird, ‘or’ as in work, or ‘ear’ as in heard. | work, her, first, hurt, turn, third | |
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The /är/ Sound 1 | The sound /är/ is usually spelled ‘ar’ as in car. | *are, car, far, farm, hard, garden | |
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The /är/ Sound 2` | The sound /är/ is usually spelled ‘ar’ as in car. | large, part, dark, park, barn, party | |
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The /’r/ Sound 1 | The sound /’r/ is often spelled ‘er’ as in after. | teacher, sister, father, winter, under, paper | |
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The /’r/ Sound 2 | The sound /’r/ is often spelled ‘er’ as in after. | after, *picture, over, never, ever, another |
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The /o/ Sound with Different Spellings 1 | The vowel sound /o/ may be spelled ‘a’ as in all and water, ‘au’ as in because, ‘aw’ as in saw, ‘o’ as in dog, or ‘ou’ as in thought. | all, also, thought, walk, dog, call | |
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The /o/ Sound with Different Spellings 2 | The vowel sound /o/ may be spelled ‘a’ as in all and water, ‘au’ as in because, ‘aw’ as in saw, ‘o’ as in dog, or ‘ou’ as in thought. | ball, water, fall, off, because, saw | |
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Compound Words 1 | Two or more words can be put together to make a compound word, such as football. | grandfather, grandmother, something, airplane, upon, sometimes |
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Compound Words 2 | Two or more words can be put together to make a compound word, such as football. | outside, into, anything, forget, football, everyone | |
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Plurals 1 | The ending ‘s’ is usually added to naming words to show more than one as in books. | books, days, things, years, lots, eggs |
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Plurals 2 | The ending ‘s’ is usually added to naming words to show more than one as in books. | nuts, friends, cars, dolls, boys, girls | |
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The ‘ed’ Ending 1 | The ending spelled ‘ed’ is sometimes added to words as in asked and liked. | used, called, lived, looked, started, jumped | |
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The ‘ed’ Ending 2 | The ending spelled ‘ed’ is sometimes added to words as in asked and liked. | helped, played, asked, liked, named, wanted | |
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The ‘ing’ Ending 1 | The ending spelled ‘ing’ is sometimes added to words as in doing, coming, and getting. | reading, making, spelling, working, playing, doing | |
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The ‘ing’ Ending 2 | The ending spelled ‘ing’ is sometimes added to words as in doing, coming, and getting. | looking, eating, coming, getting, fishing, going |
